A man stands and admires the irrigated cropland on his farm. Running the length of the lower half of the photograph is a stretch of the U.S. Reclamation Service's Okanogan Project's canal system. The project watered over 10,000 acres of prime...

Construction of the Main Canal for the Okanogan Irrigation Project began in 1906. In this photograph, workers from the crew of J. A. Barker haul out dirt using horses attached to "Fresno" buckscrapers. This photo marked the final work of the...

The town of Omak, incorporated in 1907, really began to develop after the completion of the Okanogan Irrigation Project. Much of the land near Omak fell under the project's irrigation boundaries, and farmers scurried to find the choicest plots.
As...

QuickView

Display a larger image and more item information when the pointer pauses over a thumbnail